Seize
Taking
Taking adjective - Very pleasing to look at.
Both words in one sentence
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Taking out all bridges can cripple a ship; taking over all bridges (with boarding parties) can seize control of a ship.
- In the Season Finale "Death in Heaven", the success of Missy's evil plot hinges on convincing the Doctor to seize his OML by taking command of a Cyberman army and using it to do his bidding across the universe.
Source: Omniscient Morality License -
An armed skirmish erupts between the heroes of the film The Wind and the Lion and their troops (miraculously not resulting in a German-American war), as they are one of the foreign powers taking advantage of the crisis to seize Moroccan territory.
Source: Useful Notes / Imperial Germany
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